Just as the human body serves as a habitat for bacteria and other microbes, diverse, tiny organisms known as protists host ...

Even plankton refuse to clean up water contaminated by human poop, reveals new research. The tiny, aquatic creatures are ...

In new research published this week, a team led by Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) scientists reveals that symbiotic bacteria often accompany single-celled protists in the ocean’s upper layer. Some ...

While scientists assume that the plankton are involved in some amount ... focusing on SAR11 bacteria. Metagenome sequences were collected alongside measurements of various environmental conditions ...

Across the tree of life, human activities are accelerating declines in biological species diversity, from deserts to oceans ...

The department said the Louisiana Oyster Task Force and local harvesters were notified of the closure on Tuesday, and that it ...

Record heat and rain turned thousands of Greenland lakes brown in 2022 as they hit a tipping point and began emitting carbon ...

Some plankton combine calcium and dissolved carbonates ... Carbon is stored At the bottom of the ocean, bacteria works to decompose the carbon fixed in the soft and hard tissues of organisms.

providing insights into the health of fish populations that rely on phytoplankton as a food source[1]. Another study explored the interactions between algae and bacteria in poorly mixed water columns.